JEFF WALL

At MoMA/The Museum of Modern Art

Wasn't it Robert Frost who once wrote ''Something there is that doesn't love
a wall…''

But, for Post-Modernist Art-Collectors, what's not to love about the huge
lit-from-behind Cibachrome color-positives of artist/photographer Jeff Wall!

Some of them may, at first glance, look like random point-and-shoot photos
of people Caught In the Act--or Totally Off-Guard.

Not so! They are all of them pre-Meditated, envisioned, planned, staged,
orchestrated.

The most amazing of them is the one in which gusts of wind seem to have suddenly
scattered pages of papers in the air, blown a hat aloft, and wreaked Other
Minor Havoc. This was inspired by a famous Japanese print by Hokusai…

It is appropriately titled: A Sudden Gust of Wind.

But Landscapes & Man-made Constructions--even without amateur or Professional
Models--are also grist for Wall's All-seeing Lens!